The word Glaucoma came from ancient Greece, and it means greenish or bluish. Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause damage to one of the two pair of cranial nerves. Cranial nerves are the nerves that carry the information to the brain. They are located at the back of the eye. If that nerve breaks you could lose your vision. People with Glaucoma lose one of their eye's vision at first, but if Glaucoma is not treated, people can lose their vision and that can lead to total blindness over time .
In children, Glaucoma often has very little to do with inheritance. It is mostly caused by eye injury. Juvenile inherited glaucoma is called congenital, infantile, and juvenile Glaucoma or may be caused by abnormalities in the structure of the eye such as aniridia and Axenfeld-Reiger syndrome. Inherited juvenile glaucoma is often a result of mutations.
The symptoms of Glaucoma are sudden onset of visual disturbance, often in low light, severe eye pain, nausea and vomiting (accompanying the severe eye pain), blurred vision, halos around light, reddening of the eye, gradual loss of peripheral vision, and tunnel vision in the advanced stage.
The most common treatments for glaucoma are eye drops and not often, pills.Current treatments for glaucoma, both drugs (usually eye drops) and surgery, focus on lowering eye pressure.However, vision loss in glaucoma is actually caused by damage to the optic nerve and can sometimes occur in the presence of normal or below normal eye pressure.Other reasurchers are looking at possible growth of new cells for the eye.
In the United states Glaucoma is the second cause of blindness, but it is the leading cause of blindness to African-Americans . Glaucoma can occure at any age but can increase during advance stages(teenage and adult). About 2% of the U.S population over 40 years old have Glaucoma. It is estimated that 2 million people in the U.S have Glaucoma, more than half of them are not aware that they have the disesse.
The word Glaucoma came from ancient Greece, and it means greenish or bluish. Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause damage to one of the two pair of cranial nerves. Cranial nerves are the nerves that carry the information to the brain. They are located at the back of the eye. If that nerve breaks you could lose your vision. People with Glaucoma lose one of their eye's vision at first, but if Glaucoma is not treated, people can lose their vision and that can lead to total blindness over time .
In children, Glaucoma often has very little to do with inheritance. It is mostly caused by eye injury. Juvenile inherited glaucoma is called congenital, infantile, and juvenile Glaucoma or may be caused by abnormalities in the structure of the eye such as aniridia and Axenfeld-Reiger syndrome. Inherited juvenile glaucoma is often a result of mutations.
The symptoms of Glaucoma are sudden onset of visual disturbance, often in low light, severe eye pain, nausea and vomiting (accompanying the severe eye pain), blurred vision, halos around light, reddening of the eye, gradual loss of peripheral vision, and tunnel vision in the advanced stage.
The most common treatments for glaucoma are eye drops and not often, pills.Current treatments for glaucoma, both drugs (usually eye drops) and surgery, focus on lowering eye pressure.However, vision loss in glaucoma is actually caused by damage to the optic nerve and can sometimes occur in the presence of normal or below normal eye pressure.Other reasurchers are looking at possible growth of new cells for the eye.
In the United states Glaucoma is the second cause of blindness, but it is the leading cause of blindness to African-Americans . Glaucoma can occure at any age but can increase during advance stages(teenage and adult). About 2% of the U.S population over 40 years old have Glaucoma. It is estimated that 2 million people in the U.S have Glaucoma, more than half of them are not aware that they have the disesse.